"A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that……" — Manny Farber
"A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity."
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Manny Farber
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18 Quotes by Manny Farber
Manny Farber has 18 quotes on this site.
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes…
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke.…
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I have a great love of the actual.
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There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the…
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach.…
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Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of…
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the…
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is…
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences…
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From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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